VOORHEES — For their first coach or their second, in front of Steve Mason or Ray Emery, with a concentration on defense or with an attacking philosophy, in their three losses and even in their one victory, the Flyers have had one consistent problem.

Scoring.

They don’t.

And because of that, Craig Berube has crashed into thick, hockey irony. For as much as he was hired to replace Peter Laviolette in order to demand harder work from the Flyers, his solution to the scoring catastrophe is, instead, to just relax.

“Yeah, I think so,” Berube said, after his first full practice as the head coach Wednesday. “I think sometimes you press, press, press to score because you’re not scoring and you’re losing games. But again, I will revert back to your play without the puck is the most important thing right now. When you do that — when we do an even better job than we did the last game — we will get more opportunities the other way.”

The Flyers scored one goal in each of their first three games, all losses. In their 2-1 victory over Florida Tuesday, they went scoreless for the final 52 minutes. Claude Giroux, the artist formerly known as the best player in the world, has yet to score, though he did suffer a major injury to his finger in the offseason, which didn’t help his progress.

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As any coach would have as the issue grew, Berube did the line-shuffling thing Tuesday, bookending Giroux with Scott Hartnell and Wayne Simmonds. Still, not one of the three has provided a single point.

Next?

“For me, it’s pretty simple,” Hartnell said. “I score my goals right in front, tips, rebounds, go to the net with your stick on the ice. Do that, and good things happen. I have gotten away from that a little bit.”

It’s been four games, not 40. And the Flyers did appear livelier in the Panthers’ end Tuesday, at least for the first eight minutes, or for as long as Tim Thomas would hang around before reporting a lower-body issue.

Berube Wednesday gave a confidence-vote to the new Giroux line, even if Simmonds and Hartnell possess similar, not necessarily complementary skills. Either way, as the Flyers retreated to their impressive, new locker room, they could not hide from the scoring issue — even if Giroux, the captain, did not make an appearance while the media was hanging around.

“I talked about it with Simmer (Simmonds) yesterday,” Hartnell said. “We just have to get G some space to make plays like he can. In practice, we are working hard. We are doing all the right things. We are scoring in practice. We just have to bear down in the games.”

The Flyers did that Tuesday, nicely holding on to the one-goal victory. It’s a start. But Laviolette was fired because the Flyers believe they have sufficient, championship-level talent, and yet they have had goals from only two forwards all season. Tuesday, Berube retreated to the quaint hockey “squeezing the stick” defense.

“I think that’s what happened to everyone,” said Jake Voracek, who has one assist and no goals. “When you don’t have a good start, when you are not scoring goals, now you try to do too much. And it’s getting worse. I think that’s what happened to us on the power play. Everybody wants to try so hard that sometimes it is better to just relax and try to find some holes.”

Even on the power play, the Flyers have struggled, going 2-for-19. That means they have scored three even-strength goals in four games, with Phoenix to visit Friday

“I’m not worried about that,” Voracek said. “We have a lot of experienced players in this locker room and it is just the beginning of the season.”

At the Flyers’ scoring pace — a pace they promise to change — it is going to be a long season, indeed.